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1. Introduction to Realism
2. Art, Class, and Authenticity
3. From Social Realism to Psychological Realism
4. Henry James’s In the Cage (1898, Revised 1908)
5. Introduction to Naturalism
6. Who Put the “Nature” in Naturalism? (Part 1)
7. Racism and Anti-Semitism in the Gilded Age
8. Feminine Malady in “The Yellow Wall-Paper” (1892)
9. The Culture of Neurasthenia
10. Who Put the “Nature” in Naturalism? (Part 2)
11. Feminist Utopia in Herland (1915)
12. Aspects of Modernism
13. Gertrude Stein’s Serious Play
14. The Small Town and the Big City
15. Ernest Hemingway’s Great American Boy-Men
16. Carl Van Vechten’s Heaven
17. Part One: Encounter
18. The Question of Communism
19. James Baldwin’s Critique of Wright: The Future of the Social Novel
Appendix
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